Review: Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ comes alive at City Lights Theater

Christian Pizzirani/City Lights Theater Company A novelist (played by George Psarras, at left) and his wife (Georgia Ball, at right) get more than they bargained for when an eccentric medium (Lisa Mallette) performs a seance at their dinner party in “Blythe Spirit.”

Noel Coward is one of the great observers of the world’s many subtleties, an enchanter with helpings of sly, sardonic wit. Take for example what his character Madame Arcati says in the splendiferous ghost story “Blithe Spirit” about, well, spirits.

“Anybody can write books, but it takes an artist to make a dry martini that’s dry enough.”

It is a subtle,

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